Name: ______________________________________ Date: ____________

Subject: _____________________________________ Schedule: ________

PROBLEM TITLE: Proposed Student Dormitory

MIDTERM ESQUISSE
Problem Type: ______________________

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 06

Design Criteria:

The term "dorm" is often used in the US. However, within the residence life community,
the official term "residence hall" is preferred. According to the University of Oregon,
their facilities "provide not just a place to sleep, but also opportunities for personal and
educational growth. Highly trained Residence Life staff and Hall Government officers
support this objective by creating engaging activities and programs in each hall or
complex."

In the UK, the preferred term in the context of student housing is "halls," short for "halls
of residence." In English-speaking Canada, the common term is "residence" or "res"
for short.

In Australia the terms "halls of residence" and "halls" are common, but "college" (or,
more formally, "residential college") is also used in the cases of halls of residence that
are named as such (e.g. Robert Menzies College, Trinity College, and Mannix
College); residential colleges commonly have a Christian ethos.

In United Kingdom usage, the word dormitory means a room containing several beds
accommodating unrelated people. In the United Kingdom, this arrangement exists
typically for pupils at a boarding school, travelers, or military personnel, but is almost
entirely unknown for university students.

In United Kingdom usage, a building providing sleeping and residential quarters for
large numbers of people is called a hall of residence (university students), house
(members of a religious community or pupils at a boarding school), hostel (students,
workers, or travelers) or barracks (military personnel). In the United Kingdom, halls of
residence almost entirely have single occupancy rooms, which are almost always
mixed-sex, with residents being allocated to adjacent rooms regardless of sex.

Halls located away from university facilities sometimes have extra amenities such as
a recreation room or bar. As with campus-located residence halls, these off-campus
halls commonly also have Internet facilities, either through a network connection in
each student room, a central computer cluster room, or Wi-Fi. Catered halls may
charge for food by the meal or through a term subscription. They may also contain
basic kitchen facilities for student use outside catering hours. Most halls contain a
laundry room. As of 2015, there was an expanding market for private luxury off-
campus student residences which offered substantial amenities in both the United
State and Britain, particularly in London.

Most colleges and universities provide single or multiple occupancy rooms for their
students, usually at a cost. These buildings consist of many such rooms, like an
apartment building. The largest dormitory building is Bancroft Hall at the United States
Naval Academy.

Many colleges and universities no longer use the word "dormitory" and staff are now
using the term residence hall (analogous to the United Kingdom "hall of residence")
or simply "hall" instead. Outside academia, however, the word "dorm" or "dormitory"
is commonly used without negative connotations. Indeed, the words are used regularly
in the marketplace as well as routinely in advertising.

Typically, a United States residence hall room holds two students with no toilet. This
is usually referred to as a "double". Often, residence halls have communal bathroom
facilities.

In the United States, residence halls are sometimes segregated by sex, with men living
in one group of rooms, and women in another. Some dormitory complexes are single-
sex with varying limits on visits by persons of each sex. For example, the University of
Notre Dame in Indiana has a long history of Parietals or mixed visiting hours. Most
colleges and universities offer coeducational dorms, where either men or women
reside on separate floors but in the same building or where both sexes share a floor
but with individual rooms being single-sex. In the early 2000s, dorms that allowed
people of opposite sexes to share a room became available in some public
universities. Some colleges and university coeducational dormitories also feature
coeducational bathrooms.

Many newer residence halls offer single rooms as well as private bathrooms, or suite-
style rooms.

Most residence halls are much closer to campus than comparable private housing
such as apartment buildings. This convenience is a major factor in the choice of where
to live since living physically closer to classrooms is often preferred, particularly for
first-year students who may not be permitted to park vehicles on campus. Universities
may therefore provide priority to first-year students when allocating this
accommodation.

In UK universities these buildings are usually called halls of residence (commonly

referred to as halls), except at Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, York, Lancaster, and Kent
where the residential accommodation is incorporated in each college's complex of
buildings, and simply known as rooms. Members of the college who live in its own
buildings are usually said to be living in or living in college.

The majority of bedrooms in UK halls are now single occupancy – offering the first
chance at privacy for some young people who shared bedrooms with siblings at home.
Many universities offer a range of catering options, from fully catered (with meals
served in a canteen or dining hall) to fully self-catered with kitchen facilities within the
accommodation. Kitchens are usually shared, as are bathrooms in some halls, though
en-suite rooms and self-contained studios are available in some universities for a
higher price. At most universities, on-campus or university-owned halls of residence
tend to be predominantly occupied by first-year students, and it is common for
continuing students to move into privately rented accommodation such as house
shares or purpose-built private halls for the remainder of their degree.

UK universities have seen increased funding from the Higher Education fees structure
which has gradually been replacing direct grants from the central government. This
increasing reliance on income directly from students, as opposed to entirely from direct
taxation, in part, has led to an increase in the rental of student accommodation during
the winter, spring, and summer vacation periods to house conference delegates and
tourists, often at rates similar to those charged by upmarket hotels. During these
periods students vacate their rooms if they are not required by them during non-term-
time. As a result, several student-focused personal storage and shipping companies
have appeared in order to cater to this need.

At some institutes in the UK, each residence hall has its own hall council. Where they
exist, such individual councils are usually part of a larger organization called, variously,
a residence hall association, a resident students' association, or a junior common room
committee, which typically provides funds and oversees the individual building council.
These student-led organizations are often connected together at a national level by
the National Association of College and University Residence Halls (NACURH).
Collectively, these hall councils plan social and educational events and voice student
needs to their respective administration.

Purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) has become more popular with

developers, operators and students, with an ever-increasing array of services and
facilities provided in cluster accommodation and studio-style apartments. Increasingly
in the UK, new "off-campus" student accommodation is being built by private providers
who market premium hotel-style rooms to international students at higher rates than
are charged for university-owned rooms. Some of the companies which have
developed such accommodation are based offshore to avoid tax.

The proposed project is situated within the university premises where they will convert
a parcel of green land into a dormitory. The technical description of the lot is on the
last page where points 1 and 2 are adjacent to the administration building at a 10-
meter distance. There will be 2 units of the dormitory, separating the females from the
males, of which each unit will accommodate 140 students. The main requirement of
the 2-unit dormitory aside from the students’ quarter, is to provide a favorable place in
which they can meet up and talk in an open space or study in a group.

Building Requirements:
Provide necessary spaces
Technical Requirements:
• Site Development Plan (with site analysis) scale 1:100 meters
• Conceptual Analysis
• Floor Plans --------------------------------------- scale 1:100 meters
• 4 Elevations scale 1:100 meters
• 1 Section scale 1:100 meters
• Exterior Perspective View (Colored) N.T.S.

Drawing Requirements:
• Use 1 whole Cartolina
• Use pen and ink with a pencil if needed
• Any Medium of Coloring for Best Presentation (Optional)
• Use furniture templates if necessary
• Use borders and title block

Date of Submission: __________________________

Evaluation Rating

Requirements Minimum Maximum Rating

Acceptability & Successful Translation of the Design (Elevations) 5% 10%
Presentation, Composition & Emphasis (Perspective) 7.5% 15%
Soundness & Creativity of the Floor Plans: Circulation, Segregation,
17.0% 33%
Zoning of Areas
Details, Creativity and Originality (Site Development Plan) 10% 20%
Section 5% 10%
Conceptual Analysis 5% 10%
Turned in on time 0.5% 2%
TOTAL 50.0% 100.0% 0

Grade Conversion:
1.00= 97% & above Prepared By
1.25= 94-96%
1.50= 91-93%
1.75= 88-90% Arch. HUBERT CUSI MISLANG, uap
2.00= 85-87% Instructor
2.25= 82-84%
2.50= 79-81%
2.75= 76-78%
3.00= 75%
4.00= 70-74%
5.00= 65-69%